Cate's Diary

Thanks, Rebel & LaMa. My stomach settled down during the day & I'll give the Turmeric capsules away to one of the women golfers who takes them.
G & I went out to the golf club & did the rubbish. We took ours & our elderly neighbour's too. I just did the rubbish/recycling & did not put one thing in the fridge. I really don't like going behind the bar at all anymore. They are going to see how much others don't do & how much I usually (used to) do.
I have a day on my own today & am attempting another FD. I have a soup bubbling away on the stove right now. It has some vegetable stock(saved from cooking veg for meals), celery, fresh mushrooms, 5 snow peas, 1/2 a zucchini, 1/4 salad onion, some garlic & also one massel stock cube. I'll add some fresh herbs when it's cooked. It smells good!
Yesterday I took out Travel Insurance, sent the details & copies of our passports to the travel company. I have booked us into a hotel near the Melb airport on the way back as we fly back to Aus at night & there are no connecting flights. I only need to have one more injection before we go. I have a script each for antibiotics & will take a 1st aid kit with spare scripts. I think I'm fairly well organised. We leave in 6 weeks from today.
I think I'll have another quiet day today- maybe just do some ironing etc. It's raining lightly. Autumn has arrived. Daylight savings ends in one week!
 
Ooo your soup sounds lovely! Glad to hear you manage to keep away from the bar (over)work; you deserve a pat on the back for that ;) Daylight saving time starts tonight here.
 
Thank you LaMa. It was delicious. I got through my FD well yesterday, weighed myself this morning & have not lost anything this week. Oh, well. I feel good anyway.
G & I are off to play golf with a lovely couple from another course, at a different course by the sea. We have played there the last couple of years & really enjoyed it.
It's 6 weeks, minus one day, until we go to Sri Lanka :)
 
LaMaria said:
Six weeks? That´s so close!
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I know! I'm not properly organised yet but have the essentials covered at least.
Omega said:
Just thought I'd call in to say hello in your diary. Its lovely to see some old friends
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& it's lovely having you back M xoxo

We played woeful golf but had an enjoyable day anyway. We went & checked out land & houses by the sea afterwards & checked out a place I found online. It is in a very quiet culdesac & doesn't look as flashy from the front, which I think is a good thing. I just love it! We would have to sell this place first. It would be a huge change & I'm not sure I'm ready for it. The thought of selling this place makes me feel a little sick. We live on one level now & this other place has 2 stories & an attic. I just went & had another look. I think I had better stop looking!
 
The golf will be great exercise. What has prompted you to think about moving? Would it entail you moving far away? How long have you been at your current house?
 
O wow, that would be a massive change. You mentioned moving to town before, but I always thought that would be a project for the further future. Whatever it is, I´m sure the two of you will make the right decision.
 
Well Sun, Omega & LaMa- I think I had itchy feet & the hassles at the golf club had me rethinking that maybe moving into our local town one day wasn't such a great idea & then we visited friends at the beach south of Hobart.....& then I started rethinking & looking online.....& then I found this house at the beach, which looks wonderful(but is totally impractical as it has lots of stairs)......& then we checked it out& drove around the beach nearby & thought how wonderful it would be to live so close to the beach & then.....You would have to drive everywhere though as there are no shops etc within walking distance.
I looked around our home yesterday & thought how much I would have to sell or give away & just how much I do love this place & it's privacy & am now back to earth. Sometimes my brain & imagination just run wild. We are so comfortable here & maybe we should just try to make it easier. I do think I should do some more de-cluttering. We have way too much stuff! I think I need to get someone to clear a decent track for me to walk on too. A tractor with a slasher on should do it.
 
Decluttering is always a good idea. My dad actually paved a way through our back garden for my gran when she started to have trouble walking and needed wheels - but that´s still twenty years off for you.
 
Hi Cate,

Funny my wife and I are thinking about doing the same thing. We were looking at moving to the coast and finding a house on the beach. I don't think we are ready yet either. I look at houses in the city and they are just too close to one another. I like to have a little space to do things I want to do. Living on the beach is definitely on our wishlist so hopefully one day that wish comes true. The part that will keep us here is if our kids have kids and they all live here. I just want one of them to move away eventually( haha) so then it wouldn't matter where we lived as we would all have to travel to get together. I am not sure that is going to happen though.

We started de-cluttering our place too. Funny how things just seem to accumulate. Half the stuff we don't use so we give some to the Salvation Army and the rest we throw away.

If you love your place that much then you aren't ready to move yet. The time may come but enjoy your place while you can!
 
I'm useless at de-cluttering... I think that we have more clutter than anyone else I know. I could open a museum with some of the clutter here.....

I can understand you fancying living in a beautiful location - but not everyone is suited to remote living... You have to consider such things as access in bad weather. It sounds like you are very emotionally attached to your current home to want to make the move. Maybe stay where you are and resolve to have more holidays - weeks away in a remote cottage which you could rent when the weather is nice then return home to the house you are so attached to.
 
Hi Cate, well, I was mad to move away a few months ago, and I don't know, something has switched in my brain and there's a voice telling me that I am living a good life here, why do I want to give it up so easily? Maybe that's something like what you were thinking - something bad happens and you want to run away from that bad thing, forgetting about all the great things you have put time into developing.

I don't know the answers yet and maybe you don't either, but self-help posts I read on the net are all about appreciating what you have. And that doesn't mean you're stuck in a rut, but you're content that where you are for now is where you should be. When you do need to move, believe me, nothing will hold you back. xx
 
I had a very enjoyable day at golf yesterday, even playing in the rain. I pushed through. Once I would have abandoned the game as soon as it rained. The company was excellent. I came second.
 
I'm so glad you had fun. And second place is pretty great! I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have stuck it out in the rain.
 
Well done, Cate! I don´t mind rain as long as I know that I can go home, shower and get dry again after.
 
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